"State trust lands were set aside to fund education. National forest lands were set aside to protect watersheds and are required to be managed for many uses, including timber."
"State management of our Federal lands is a high priority of mine."
"I commend the Chairman for his work on this issue, and I look forward to working with you as we advance legislation."
"The oil industry must make a widespread, forceful, and long-term commitment to cultivating a serious approach to safety that sets the highest safety standards and consistently meets them."
"The impugning of the witness's character, her truthfulness, in front of the Committee is... not the way to be conducting this hearing."
"Despite the Majority's attempt to block an increase in the inspection fees charged to offshore oil and gas companies..."
"Because, at the end of all this, we are still dealing with possibly--with the worst environmental catastrophe that this country has seen."
"I have suggested that we rename it Denier Island, where those who question the science behind global warming can spend the summer cooling off and escaping the heat waves, the drought and the wildfires..."
"I voted for that measure. I have also put forward legislation with my colleagues Representatives Grijalva, Napolitano, Lujan, Costa and Polis that recognizes we have a problem in our forests."
"During my lifetime and those of my forefathers, we in the West have learned to live and work with Mother Nature..."
"We also have an issue of competing endangered species, if you will."
"Would increased resources for fuel treatments and fuel reduction in the--particularly in the Wildland/Urban Interface reduce the damage that we are seeing right now from wildfires?"